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Cowboy action shooting (CAS, also known as Western action shooting, single action shooting, cowboy 3-gun, and Western 3-gun) is a competitive shooting sport that originated in 1981 [1] at the Coto de Caza Shooting Range in Orange County, California. Cowboy action shooting is now practiced in many places with several sanctioning organizations ...
Cowboy Action Shooting is quite similar to IPSC-shooting, but with an Old West theme. There are multiple international sanctioning bodies, with Single Action Shooting Society being the oldest and largest. [4] Firearms must be either original or reproduction designs correct for the 19th century, such as Colt single-action pistols and Winchester ...
The firearms used are models produced before 1900, as well as replicas of those, [4] and all competitors compete using cowboy nicknames and dressed up in cowboy themed clothing. Cowboy action shooting in Norway emerged towards the end of the 1990s [5] with the first CAS club being founded in 1997 under the name "1873-klubben Western Lawdogs ...
The mass shooting occurred around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at KDC/One, a cosmetics manufacturer located northeast of Columbus, officials said. When officers arrived, they discovered one person dead and ...
A shooting at a home in the College Park neighborhood just north of LeMoyne-Owen College killed two and injured three others. [53] January 27: Philadelphia: Pennsylvania: 1 3 4: A shooting at a ballroom in the Frankford neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia killed a man and injured three others. [54] January 27: Elkhart: Indiana: 3 [n 1] 2 5
United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. (U.S. Fire Arms Mfg. Co., USFA) was a privately held firearms-manufacturing firm based in Hartford, Connecticut.Until 2011, United States Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Inc. was known for producing single action revolvers, which were clones of the Colt Single Action Army revolver. [5]
A cowboy action shooter brandishing his revolver. People relive the Wild West both historically and in popular culture by participating in cowboy action shooting events, [61] where each gunslinger adopts his or her own look representing a character from Western life in the late 1800s, and as part of that character, chooses an alias to go by ...
A coach gun is a modern term, coined by gun collectors, for a double-barreled shotgun, generally with barrels from 18 to 24 inches (460 to 610 mm) in length, placed side-by-side. These weapons were known as "cut-down shotguns" or "messenger's guns" from the use of such shotguns on stagecoaches by shotgun messengers in the American Wild West .